i will never get over how FusionFall put those two together to be in a tutorial introduction, because they were both 'cool kids' of that era, but objectively Ben10 is a dorky overly dramatic cool kinda vibe while Numbuh 5 is just the coolest kid on the block but is chill about it vibe. they would indeed make a fun battle team-up
also why tf Ben just fistfights his way out of his battles when his watch aint working, use a bazooka or smth dude smh
I have had this bouncing around my head like a Samsung DVD logo on a black screen, and it finally hit the corner, allowing me to be coherent enough to share it.
Warning: I came up with this idea while listening to some dark stuff on YouTube, and it deals with the death of a child. Nothing graphic, but it's implied. It's a bit of a tearjerker.
This is post Nigel leaving for the Galactic KND.
Sector V gets an anonymous call about a kid on the platform of a newly opened roller coaster at the Rainbow Monkey Happy Sugar Land theme park after closing. At first, they thought it was a distress call and arrived heavily armed, only to find that no one was there. Strangely enough, there were strips of caution tape littering the floor, as if someone had torn them off. Abby remarks it's even stranger that the ride was brand new and had only run a handful of times, but was considered "defunct" according to the sign on the door. Hoagie shrugs and playfully guesses that it's haunted.
The kids decide that it was a prank and turn to leave, only to be faced with a little boy a couple of years younger than them. After greeting them like a little kid would and telling them his name was "Victor," he asks them if they'd go on the roller coaster with him. When Wally, who was ready to go home, rudely told him to go by himself, he tearfully told him he couldn't, explaining that the adults told him he was "too small" and that it was too scary to go alone, striking a cord with the small Australian. Wally's rudeness gets called out by Kuki, and he should be nicer to little kids. It's not their fault they're short.
Abby rolls her eyes, still convinced that this was a false alarm, and tells Hoagie to leave the "love birds" to their spat, then heads for the exit. Upon exiting the ride, Abby notices a tall, dark, hooded figure watching them from a closed food stand, and it bolts toward the Rainbow Monkey Sugar-Coated Castle of Love ride once spotted. This causes Abby and Hoagie to give chase.
After a bit of back and forth, Kuki puts her foot down and declares that she will take Victor on the ride herself if Wally is too scardy-pants to do it. This causes Wally to begrudingly agree to go, too, commenting in his tsundere way that it wasn't like he was going to just leave the little guy hanging as he passes by the height limit, where he barely passes. He makes sure Victor is between him and Kuki, but realizes that there is no one to start the ride. As he and Kuki converse about how they're supposed to ride it without an operator, the roller coaster starts on its own, silencing the two until Kuki throws her hands up into the air with a cheer, and Victor does the same.
Abby and Hoagie corner the dark figure, ready to fire their weapons at a moment's notice. The figure pleads for them not to hurt him and pulls back the hood to reveal a teenage boy wearing the park uniform who looks remarkably close to Victor. He quickly explains that he had to lure the KND to the roller coaster as a last-ditch effort to save "him." When asked who, the teenager hesitates, then answers his older brother.
The teenager, Vincent, explains that ten years ago, his brother wanted to go on a roller coaster when their family visited a different park. His brother was told by their father that he was "too small" to go on the ride and that it was too scary for him since the boy was afraid of the dark. When their parents were ready to leave the park, the boy adamantly snuck back to the roller coaster through an employees-only area, unaware that it led to the tracks. All Vincent remembers is his parents' devastated screams and people rushing around when the coaster cars returned to the platform, painted a different color than when they left.
Hoagie looks horrified while Abby pulls her hat down over her eyes with a flinch, and Hoagie asks what that has to do with the new coaster, to which Vincent tells him that it's not a new coaster. It's just been rebranded as the Rainbow Monkey Dazzling Sugar Rush Minecart Adventure roller coaster. It has been dismantled and reassembled over a dozen times since his brother's passing and rebranded to be something different, almost as if to pretend the incident never happened.
The thing is, no matter who owns it, it's evident that something haunts the ride and scares park goers, which causes the ride to be moved from place to place. Vincent has been tracking its movements since he found out what actually happened and started to get jobs at the places where the coaster was reassembled each time, once he was old enough. He never got to see a haunting first hand, and only caught the tail end of apparent sightings through panicked park-goers and after-the-fact photos showing a ghost boy. He was always too late to stake out the coaster on his own because the ride would be taken down and moved not long after as a "business decision."
Through investigating, Vincent finds that the ghost shows up closer to closing time but won't interact with adults or teens. Pictures of him show him standing away from the tracks, just watching the patrons with an empty stare. The boy would only interact when there were other kids around and would try to coax them into riding with him. Once that happens, the kids would report that the boy would start panicking while going into a covered part of the ride, and when the coaster emerged from the other side, the boy was gone. This often resulted in a panicked rush for the gate once the ride came to a stop, with several people getting hurt in the process. Other incidents had caused the decision to remove the ride from other parks, as it became a liability.
Vincent explains that this is his last chance to do something since the owner was going to destroy the ride after the ghost boy scared one of the maintenance workers so badly that he fell off the platform, breaking his leg. The ride was to be demolished over the weekend after a popular Rainbow Monkey park event. This caused the teen to panic, which led to Vincent calling the KND as a last resort to see if they could help in any way, though he's not sure how. He felt like he had to do everything he could to save Victor, even though he's been gone for so long. Hearing the name makes Hoagie and Abby exchange glances before bolting back toward the ride. The two discuss what could be done about the boy as they run, and Hoagie pulls out a book that was given to him when he had to face Krampus to get Mushi back to see if it had anything on the topic of ghosts. He swears he saw something about "unfinished business" while thumbing through it one night. Vincent, startled by their quick movement, scrambles after them.
Kuki and Victor excitedly chatter about the decorations while Victor points out all of the "new" stuff, with KND operatives unaware that this wasn't his first ride. Wally just sat back watching the two out of the corner of his eye, a subtle smile on his face. Victor sighs happily and laments that not many people want to ride with him, probably because they think he's too much of a baby for getting scared when going into dark places. Even when the adults would let him ride by himself, he still got scared of the dark areas. Wally scoffs and tells him that one day, he won't be so small and he can ride as many scary rides as he wants. He just has to remember to be brave. The dark can't hurt him, and Wally playfully offers to beat it up if Victor wants him to. This makes Victor marvel at the KND operative. Kuki agrees and tells him that he's with them and they won't let anything happen to him during the ride. The Rainbow Monkeys on the ride won't allow it either.
With the dark part of the ride approaching, Victor tenses hard, gripping the bar, only for Kuki to cover the hand closest to her with a smile. Wally sees this and does the same, telling him not to worry while calling him his "little buddy," that the three of them will get through it together. Kuki then reveals that she had been on the ride once already. The dark part of the ride isn't actually dark; it's studded with glowing rock candy gems that make it look like you're underground, and it's the prettiest part of the ride. It's like a sea of diamonds in the night sky. If it were too dark, you wouldn't be able to see the Rainbow Monkey Miners happily working and showing off their glittering finds. Victor's eyes widen at the sound of this, and he bounces excitedly in his seat. Wally mutters that she could have said something about that sooner, somewhat embarrassed that he got soft while saying all of that stuff.
Abby and Hoagie, followed by Vincent, reach the platform just in time for the ride to end to see the cars roll up. To their surprise, Wally, Kuki, and Victor exit the car as if it were a normal ride. Wally boasts how there was "nothing to it" as Victor celebrates riding the coaster from start to finish. Upon seeing Vincent, the boy rushes up and excitedly tells him about how he wasn't "too small" and the adults were wrong about it being scary. It was as if he didn't see that time had passed. The teenager looks stunned at the child before him, going on and on about how he was going to tell his father he was wrong. Vincent pushes through his silence and asks the boy if he remembers the last time he saw their family. With a thoughtful look, Victor glances back at the coaster car and recalls sneaking away from Vincent and his parents because he wanted to go on the roller coaster regardless of what they said. As he recounts the situation, a look of realization falls across Victor's face. He did not survive the incident in the tunnel that day, did he?
Wally and Kuki look confused, wondering who the teenager is, why Hoagie is on the verge of tears, and why Abby is unable to finish her sentences without her voice cracking or fading while hiding behind her hat.
Vincent tells Victor that he didn't and that he needs to move on somehow before he becomes lost when the roller coaster gets demolished. Victor begins to ask questions, if their parents know he's gone and if they're okay, to which Vincent answers yes to both and that all three of them think about him often. The boy goes quiet before nodding. He smiles and tells Vincent that's good, and he won't have to worry about him since he thinks he knows what he has to do next. He got to finish his ultimate goal, after all. As they talk, Victor slowly starts to fade away, prompting him to tell Vincent to relay to his parents that he's okay, that he loves all of them, and wishes he could see them again.
This startles Kuki and Wally, and Victor turns to them, thanking them for helping him achieve his dream, thanking Wally directly for helping him to be brave, while asking them to keep an eye out for his younger brother. Vincent moves to hug the boy, and Victor tells him to be brave, too, like he learned to be earlier, before telling him he loved him and he'll wait for him before fading into a soft sparkle.
Kuki, realizing what had just transpired, burst into tears while Wally stood, dumbstruck at the fact that he was interacting with a ghost. Hoagie pulled his hat off while wiping his eyes, and Abby moved to Vincent's side, placing a hand on his shoulder and asking him if he would be okay. The teenager nodded and stood, quietly thanking them as the KND before walking off. He had to go talk to his parents.
Abby stood there, staring at the spot where Victor had disappeared as Wally began to loudly freak out over the whole thing. Hoagie sniffles, clutching his hat and declaring that he had to go hug Tommy. Kuki nods, and the two depart with her intention of finding her own little sister. Once Wally was done, Abby smiled at him and praised him for his work. A ghost kid was still a kid, after all, and if it wasn't for him telling Victor to be brave, the boy probably wouldn't have been able to pass on that easily.
Fixing her hat, she sighs and tells him that they should go find their own siblings and spend some time with them after this. They'll never know when it'll be their last. Cree may be a pain in the ass sometimes, but she was still her sister regardless. Wally feels a lump swell in his throat and, holding back tears, he nods. He wouldn't know what he would do if he ever lost Joey like that.
The two head out to meet Kuki and Hoagie at their vehicle before departing, each with a new mission once they get home.
I love their presidential AU so much. I asked them if I could draw their version of Prisonor Abby, and they said yes! I would've posted this sooner, but I've been sooooo busy.
I shared this with Fallen Gabriel before in the discord server, but i thought the public should he able to see it, too.
While WHAT they do in the organisation is kept under wraps, one thing’s for sure: they’re still kids at heart.
Numbuh 5 (Abigail Gilligan): Part-Time Teacher at McClintok High School
Numbuh 4 (Dr Wallabee Beetles M.D.): Doctor at the local hospital
Numbuh 3 (Kuki Sanban-Beetles): CEO of the Rainbow Monkey Corporation
Numbuh 2 (Hogarth P. Gilligan Jr): Short-haul-flight pilot at the airport
Numbuh 1 (Nigel Uno): Unknown
After the whole fiasco with the GKND, Nigel has finally returned to Earth…sort of. While he longs to join the KND again as an adult operative and be with his Sector, the organisation has him in hiding due to the lingering tensions between them and the Galactic branch. No one really knows where he is, what name he goes by now, or what he’s doing, but the KND are working hard to bring him back.
- 38 years old
- Finds ways to contact the now adult members of Sector V to let them know he misses them and that he’s ok.
- His name has become legend in the organisation. None of the current kids are entirely sure he exists, but the undercover adult operatives hope for the day they can be reunited with their old friend
